In 2002, the then-owners of the rights
to Robert E. Howard's works decided to publish a series of three books in
order to extend the U.S. copyrights of the unpublished material. Otherwise
all this unpublished material would have been public domain in the U.S. after
12/31/2006.

Three books were published - A RHYME OF
SALEM TOWN AND OTHER POEMS, DEAR HPL (Howard's letters to Lovecraft),
and DEAR AUGUST (Howard's letters to August Derleth). 10 copies of
each book were to be prepared by Glenn Lord, but fewer than 10 were eventually
produced, maybe as few as 6 copies of each.

This collection includes all the letters
to August Derleth, except for a postcard REH sent to August Derleth.